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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!smoir
- From: smoir@world.std.com (Scott A Moir)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drives VS Floptical Drives (?)
- Message-ID: <C0rnsJ.EzK@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <81!3-=+@rpi.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:24:17 GMT
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- In article <81!3-=+@rpi.edu> sassoj@vccnw10.its.rpi.edu (John J. Sasso Jr.) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- > On my i486 PC I have a 104M harddrive (SCSI), which has only 15M left on
- > it. Although I could buy another 100+M harddrive to get more storage, I
- > was thinking of turning to removable storage (high capacity disks). I was
- > looking at floptical drives and Bernoulli drives. From what I understand,
- > (1) Bernoulli drives run about $500, and flopticals about $300, (2) the
- > disks that come w/Bernoulli drives are usually 90M, whereas the disks for
- > flopticals are 21M. However, how do these two drives compare as far as
- > access time is concerned (as well as w/ harddrives)?
-
- I don't know about the access time on the Bernoulli, but the floptical I
- have is very nice. The disks run around $80 for a pack of 5, vs $120 or so
- for each Bernoulli cartridge. You can also read normal diskettes with your
- floptical drive, and the access time on floppies is about 4 times faster
- than normal floppy drives.
-
- The only advantage to the Bernoulli is that it is a little less fragile.
- It is using essentally a giant floppy disk to do the job. The optical
- device is -very- sensitive, and can be knocked out of alignment.
-
- Scott
-
-
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